u/phuzee

Hello! A friend in the USA has sent me a parcel. I can see from the tracking it arrived in my town this morning and delivery was attempted for the first time today.

I've had a grey 'fee to pay' card, for a customs charge.

When I go to pay, it says I can't because the parcel is being returned to sender.

Today was the first time it arrived here, it hasn't been 18-21 days as it says on the card.

The tracking says it is at the local depot, I don't drive and it's a few hours to get there so tried to call, but the calls keep routing me to automated lines that can't help.

Is this a known issue, and if I turn up at the depot can I pay and get my item? Thanks

I ordered from lotus for the first time this week, having been with Curely before.

I work full time so can't be at home for delivery. This hasn't been an issue before because the postman just leaves it in my post room, and they don't ask for a signature.

I saw with lotus they use a signed for service, but they say you can choose to collect it from a post office once your tracking number comes through.

My tracking number came through, yesterday and no option to redirect. I eventually got through to someone at royal mail and that option doesn't exist until they attempt the first delivery for signed for service.

Delivery was attempted today and obviously rejected. I now can select redelivery to a post office, but only on Saturday. I had plans Saturday that I've paid for, which I've had to cancel.

I tried to call lotus to give feedback on their website wording but also to get advice on whether this was safe. Their call centre is open for just 3 hours on weekdays. I called in the window and the message said to email them as they were too busy, which can wake up to 7 days to get a reply.

I get this isn't the worst experience ever, but all of this just builds up to an overall lack of care when building customer journeys which really winds me up.

Does anyone know if I get it Saturday will that be safe to use? I have to ask here because my pharmacy are unreachable. Dispatched Wednesday.

In trying to find some models of ships (x wing / falcon / naboo starships) that are on stands, perhaps several inches long that you could put on a shelf or desk that aren't overwhelming.

The only ones I can find are either very large, very expensive, or model kits you build yourself.im thinking through the years something like this must exist which is around 30-50 dollars. Any ideas?

Thanks

Tembo are a mortgage and savings platform that offer a range of ISAs and savings products.

They are now running an offer whereby you can earn an amount between £10 and £1000 if you sign up with a referral link and open either a Cash ISA - Easy Access, Home saver or Lifetime ISA product and deposit or transfer at least £500 within 30 days.

Please note the offer is weighted, so you are more likely to earn a smaller reward. The reward will be paid within 90 days and won't affect your ISA allowance. New customers only.

Bonus Probability:
£10 - 95%

£15 - 4%

£50 - 0.7%

£75 - 0.2%

£1000 - 0.1%

Steps to recieve the offer:

1. Sign up with my Tembo referral link https://www.tembomoney.com/savings/join/tkn-tty58g-uv7jse and enter your email address
2. Download the Tembo app and sign-up using the same email addres you entered above.
3. Open and fund a Tembo Cash ISA - Easy access, Lifetime ISA or HomeSaver by depositing or transferring a minimum of £500 within 30 days of claiming your reward

You can track the referral in the app.

Offer T&C's: Click here

Non-Referral Link : Click here

About 6 months ago I moved from a well regarded IC to a manager of just 1 individual. This individual was hired by someone else, who went on maternity leave, and became my direct report.

They are later in their career, very experienced in this field and have worked at a higher level than their current role previously.

In the first few months I realised they were struggling to get up to speed and following basic instruction. They are extremely good with people and networking, but their written work was subpar, and I found when they were explaining problems they were facing their explanations were confused and they often would not give me context I needed to help or guide.

I gave them a few projects that were safe and easy to fail, giving what I felt was clear background and contacts. Again I started seeing simple mistakes, confused outputs.

I was putting this down to me being a new manager and blaming myself, along with him being relatively new and getting up to speed.

We are now 6 months in and are delivering a very key project for our company. I gave him a very basic task of updating a document, something I would give an entry level staff member (he is in mid-level role). We have offered the product before so he just needed to update the documents with new dates and add a few new terms. After 3 attempts he kept getting it wrong, and was deleting elements which were not changing.

He often overcomplicated simple tasks and when I tell him to prioritise something, he will say he hasn't had time to do it, but has reorganised our folder system.

I feel like I've been super clear in feedback that he needs to improve in specific areas, but a promotion opportunity came up and he asked me about applying, which seemed crazy to me given his performance.

I've now had feedback from other team members and managers that he has given similar jumbled responses and I now find myself correcting his work and it doesn't feel fair on me.

I told him yesterday I am putting a performance plan in place, and he seemed genuinely shocked, like it was the first he had heard of performance issues, despite me explicitly saying it multiple times in the run up to this.

To be honest I'm not sure if I'm asking a question or just seeking validation I've done the right thing as I feel awful and am worried I've let him down. Is that normal to feel when doing something like this? Am I just super unlucky to have one report and he turned out like this, I feel like I want to quit my job and never manage again.

Tembo are a mortgage and savings platform that offer a range of ISAs and savings products.

They are now running an offer whereby you can earn an amount between £10 and £1000 if you sign up with a referral link and open either a Cash ISA - Easy Access, Home saver or Lifetime ISA product and deposit or transfer at least £500 within 30 days.

Please note the offer is weighted, so you are more likely to earn a smaller reward. The reward will be paid within 90 days and won't affect your ISA allowance. New customers only.

Bonus Probability:
£10 - 95%

£15 - 4%

£50 - 0.7%

£75 - 0.2%

£1000 - 0.1%

Steps to recieve the offer:

1. Sign up with my Tembo referral link https://www.tembomoney.com/savings/join/tkn-tty58g-uv7jse and enter your email address
2. Download the Tembo app and sign-up using the same email addres you entered above.
3. Open and fund a Tembo Cash ISA - Easy access, Lifetime ISA or HomeSaver by depositing or transferring a minimum of £500 within 30 days of claiming your reward

You can track the referral in the app.

Offer T&C's: Click here

Non-Referral Link : Click here

Last month I posted that I was on a long term stall (https://www.reddit.com/r/mounjarouk/s/ZeIKKl8LDJ) and had been at 280lbs since August after losing a substantial amount before.

Some very helpful people pointed out I needed to rework my calorie intake now I was smaller and a few other tips. I've taken that into account and I'm now down 10lbs since making that post. Take a look through the comments to see all the tips as everyone was fantastic.

This is a massive thank you to this community!

Also, I walked 26 miles for charity yesterday! Something I could never have imagined 2 years ago.

2026 is looking good so far!

Sorry if this is a dumb question,but I've taken over a project at work for a major offer we are running. The project manager has built a tool that has an input where frontline staff enter an ID number and it tells them whether the person associated with that ID has benefited from the offer before.

It's been vetted for data privacy and accuracy, but I'm pretty sure it is unusable. The plan was to upload it to an intranet SharePoint site for use for thousands of frontline users, include it in training.

If I'm not mistaken, I don't believe there is a way to fully lock it down so it can't be edited, and even if you can leaving just one input cell, I'm not sure there are ways to have multiple users use it at the same time without seeing eachothers inputs.

Is there a way in excel to do this?

Thanks